by Élodie Lévêque, Project Conservator An extraordinary manuscript collection; the Ormond Collection has been called the ‘most important Anglo-Norman family archive in Ireland’. It encompasses almost 700 years of Irish history, from the first influx of Norman settlers, to the workings of the feudal system, and the Butler family lordship of almost half of Ireland. [...]
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Anglo-Norman,
Beeswax,
Butler Family,
Calendar of Ormond Deeds,
Calf's Intestine,
Chromophores,
Collagen Fibres,
Conservation,
Controlled humidification,
Elodie Leveque,
Gelatine Solution,
Gelatinisation,
Goldbeaters' Skin,
Humidity,
Irish Manuscripts Commission,
Lamb Parchment,
Manuscripts,
Mould,
Mould Enzymes,
Mylar,
Ormond Collection,
Ormond Deeds,
Parchment,
Pigments,
Sheepskin,
The Ireland Funds,
Water Vapour,
Wax Seals
by Frances Clarke, Archivist of the Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010 In November 2011 the National Library of Ireland acquired one of its most important donations for many years – the literary papers of the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The papers have since been catalogued (I was fortunate to work on this collection) and are [...]
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Belfast Group,
Blackberry Picking,
Child Lost,
Department of Manuscripts,
Diaries,
Donations,
Door Into The Dark,
Ezra Pound,
Frances Clarke,
Gallarus Oratory,
Gerard Manley Hopkins,
Human Chain,
In Gallarus Oratory,
Literary Papers,
Manuscripts,
Mycenae Lookout,
Nobel Laureate,
North,
Notebooks,
Philip Larkin,
Professor of Poetry,
Robert Lowell,
Seamus Heaney,
Seamus Heaney Archive Project,
Seeing Things,
Station Island,
Ted Hughes,
The Redress of Poetry,
The Spirit Level,
Thomas Kilroy,
W.B. Yeats,
Wintering Out
by Sean Smith, Researcher at our “Palace to Procrastination” Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and the interminable case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce. We wouldn’t have the on-going, lengthy and costly tribunals and we wouldn’t have the colourful carnival [...]
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Attorneys,
Bar Club,
Barristers,
Benchers,
Four Courts,
Grand Day,
Henrietta Street,
Inns of Court,
Inns Quay,
Irish Bar,
James Gandon,
John Philpot Curran,
King's Inns,
Lawyers,
Open University,
Richard Edgeworth,
Sean Smith,
Society of the King's Inns,
Townsend Street